Suwanji Madanayake, a prominent first Class all-round
cricketer to emerge from Kingswood College, Kandy, will be playing for
the English non-metropolitan district of Ipswich, a county town of
Suffolk, in the forthcoming English cricket season.

Madanayake, who earlier played in the Liverpool
Championship for three years, in 2008 became the highest wicket-taker of
the tournament to become the first Lankan player to achieve the
milestone. He was also the first Liverpool player to achieve the 500
runs and 50-wicket milestone during the 2008 season.

Suwanji has played in 103 First Class matches and scored
close to 3000 runs, inclusive of a century and 13 fifties. He has also
captured 274 wickets with 13 five-wicket hauls and two match-bags of 10
wickets.

Suwanji, who was adjudged the Best Bowler of the Tier
‘B’ Premier League in Sri Lanka in 2006, was later adjudged the Best
Player of the Tournament in 2007 and 2008.

Madanayake, who captained the Kingswood College First XI
cricket team in the school’s centenary year, later joined Sampath Bank,
for whom he excelled.

He played a lead role in Sampath’s fine win in both the
Mercantile League and Twenty-20 Tournaments recently.